Regulation
Claims must come under GISC's remit.
The insurance ombudsman has called upon the General Insurance Standards Council to widen its scope t...
IFAs beating direct teams in life and pensions stakes.
Direct sales forces continue to perform poorly compared to independent financial advisers (IFAs) and...
A marine market watershed.
The centre of gravity of the London marine market shifted back to Lloyd's last week with CGU arrivin...
CGU gives Lloyd's marine boost.
CGU has switched its marine underwriting operation from the company market into Lloyd's, citing the ...
Men staying on this mortal coil for longer.
Male mortality is improving faster than female, according to recent figures from the Faculty & Insti...
Finn end of the wedge.
Finland is to get a new insurance industry regulator in the spring. From April, the Insurance Superv...
Health cost charges threat to car insurance.
The Government has pledged to carry out a six-monthly review of the recovery of hospital treatment c...
Take note of IBRC's new allies.
As long-time campaigners for greater openness on the part of the Insurance Brokers Registration Coun...
Axa and the Pru more than pleased with '98 business results.
Prudential and Axa Sun Life announced increases in business for last year amid the message that the ...
Long term split cheers insurers.
Speculation that the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly is to recommend splitting nu...
Principles, not personalties, will win the regulatory day.
I am concerned to read your editorial (Two heads are better than one, PM, 14 Jan, p19) in which you ...
Let's hear it for adjusting's finer points.
Never have I read such a wide-ranging diatribe that displayed such appalling ignorance and prejudice...
Regulator in row with IBRC over £185,000.
The Insurance Brokers' Registration Council is at loggerheads with the insurance industry regulator ...
Danes go for brokers.
A Bill currently being debated in the Danish Parliament will require insurance brokers to be registe...
Looking for innovation.
The engineering industry may be a fraction of its former size, but as Simon Threadgold discovers, there are still many business opportunities for engineering insurers.
Aon Group acquires 15th-ranked broker in France.
The Aon Group has continued to assert itself as a force in France with the acquisition of the 15th-r...
Is Liberty's fate the shape of things to come?
The demise of the aggressively marketed Liberty Re has sent a cold shiver through London's reinsuran...
Liberty aims to trash fears over contaminated land.
A new product from Liberty Legal Indemnities aims to protect policy holders against the dangers of b...
Exclusive - Testing time for CMG.
IT Services company CMG has launched a testing device for insurers who need to develop systems which...
ABI makes PASS at cash-strapped IFAs.
A loan fund of £100m has been set aside to bale out independent financial advisers in danger of goin...
Poland opens its pension doors to Norwich Union.
The Polish government has given Norwich Union a licence to sell pensions in the country. NU will ...
A damning body of evidence.
The second UK Bodily Injury Study has just been commissioned by the International Underwriting Association of London and is due out at the end of the year. Phil Ellis describes some of the changes that could result.
DTI portfolio: the kiss of death?
For the best part of 20 years, it seems that the top ministerial job in the Department of Trade and ...
Woolf reforms will lead to legal howlers say insurers.
There is growing concern that the radical reform of the civil litigation system will lead to chaos i...